West Routt Library District

Amelia van den Broek is sent to stay with her cousin Zora in Baltimore, Maryland during the summer of 1889. Zora shows her city life and aims to help her find a suitable man to marry. When Amelia starts having disturbing visions that offer glimpses into the future, she is soon the talk of the town. Meanwhile, Amelia's attraction to artist Nathaniel, who is outside of Zora's circle, threatens the new life she is building. When one of her own visions...

Fourteen-year-old Joan Skraggs, just like the heroines in her beloved novels, yearns for real life and true love. But what hope is there for adventure, beauty, or art on a hardscrabble farm in Pennsylvania where the work never ends? Over the summer of 1911, Joan pours her heart out into her diary as she seeks a new, better life for herself - because maybe, just maybe, a hired girl cleaning and cooking for six dollars a week can become what a farm...

Briefly discusses the authorship of the poem later set to music that became the national anthem of the United States as well as the flag itself.

In 1987, while her mother sits in a Baltimore hotel at the deathbed of a grandmother twelve-year-old Annie never knew, Annie travels back fifty years and shares adventures with the lonely girl who will grow up to be her feisty grandmother.